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murdoch with a pie and have murdoch's wife lunge towards the attacker and thwart the attempt to harm her husband. i keep seeing headlines like don't mess with wendi deng. so what should have been a port mortem analysis of the testimony of two media moguls has now been obscured by laud tory coverage of mrs. murdoch. and what do we know of the pie thrower? his name is johnny marbles. i may have lost mine, but come on. this activist and comedian whose real name is jonathan maybells was somehow able to avoid security with his pie and get within inches of murdoch. let me remind you that "news of the world" once set up formula one president max mosely with prostitutes on their payroll, leading to that unforgettable headline f-1 boss his sick nazi orgy with five hookers. what's a foam pie compared to five prostitutes with cameras oú
murdoch with a pie and have murdoch's wife lunge towards the attacker and thwart the attempt to harm her husband. i keep seeing headlines like don't mess with wendi deng. so what should have been a port mortem analysis of the testimony of two media moguls has now been obscured by laud tory coverage of mrs. murdoch. and what do we know of the pie thrower? his name is johnny marbles. i may have lost mine, but come on. this activist and comedian whose real name is jonathan maybells was somehow...
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and if they -- if the murdochs and news corp. try to lay everything on him, because he was the chief lawyer for "news of the world," he's not going to sit idly by. so if the brits are looking for a john dean character in all this, i would think that tom crone is the guy to watch, and the statement today contradicting james murdoch's testimony about that email is the first sign that he may in fact be willing to go there. >> nbc news national investigative correspondent michael isikoff. thank you for joining me tonight, michael. >> thank you, lawrence. >>> coming up, virginia governor bob mcdonald flip flops on the debt ceiling, even though he never actually understood what the debt ceiling was in the first place. that's in tonight's "rewrite." >>> and later, one of our favorite funnymen gets serious to deliver a very important message. stay tuned for stephen colbert's powerful anti-bullying video for the it gets better campaign. that's coming up. every day, all around the world, energy is being produced to power our lives. while e
and if they -- if the murdochs and news corp. try to lay everything on him, because he was the chief lawyer for "news of the world," he's not going to sit idly by. so if the brits are looking for a john dean character in all this, i would think that tom crone is the guy to watch, and the statement today contradicting james murdoch's testimony about that email is the first sign that he may in fact be willing to go there. >> nbc news national investigative correspondent michael...
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martin, david cameron says that the murdochs will have, and i'm quoting him, questions to answer. so that must mean that they may be dragged back to westminster. is that right? >> well, absolutely. you know, this is the accusations that are still rather published by the two former executives and by the way, they are not just former executi executives, but one was a executive of the firm and one was a top lawyer of the firm, and they say they had given james information when he was in charge of the committee, and so if it is proven that james murdoch was in possession of the information when he told the parliament committee that he had not been in possession of the information, that is serious indeed. much bigger problems to comen than what we have seen already. >> indeed. rupert has returned home to america. >> potentially. >> and it seems that the scandal has followed him because the justice department is actively looking into news corp. as the fbi and which should rupert be more concerned about an investigation in the uk or the u.s.? >> well, i would be more concerned about inve
martin, david cameron says that the murdochs will have, and i'm quoting him, questions to answer. so that must mean that they may be dragged back to westminster. is that right? >> well, absolutely. you know, this is the accusations that are still rather published by the two former executives and by the way, they are not just former executi executives, but one was a executive of the firm and one was a top lawyer of the firm, and they say they had given james information when he was in...
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this was in "the times" newspaper owned by rupert murdoch's news corp. as you can see, it depicts starving people. and the caption says i have a belly full of phone hacking. i don't know if they were trying to be smart or funny in any way. there has been a lot of online criticism as a result of this. people are calling it as distasteful. as journalists we shouldn't really give our personal opinion on stories, but it really is quite distasteful, ali. >> it's a strange one. always difficult when you're talking about cartoonist because they operate in a sort of different editorial space. the juxtaposition of phone hacking and famine in somalia does sit strangely. good to see you, monita rajpal in london. >>> an underwater robot the size of an egg could limit contamination from nuclear plants. it's been developed to swim through pipes at nuclear facilities checking for signs of corrosion. leaking pipes can lead to contaminated ground water. keep in mind about half of all reactors in the united states are at least 30 years old. the state of california is axin
this was in "the times" newspaper owned by rupert murdoch's news corp. as you can see, it depicts starving people. and the caption says i have a belly full of phone hacking. i don't know if they were trying to be smart or funny in any way. there has been a lot of online criticism as a result of this. people are calling it as distasteful. as journalists we shouldn't really give our personal opinion on stories, but it really is quite distasteful, ali. >> it's a strange one. always...
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. >>> another rupert murdoch newspaper is stirring controversy. outrage really over an editorial cartoon that is being called shameless and offensive. we are following the story from london. monita? >> shameless, offensive, disgusting are some of the words being used to describe this cartoon which we are going to show you. it's basically depicting starving people in somalia with the caption, "we have had a belly full of phone hacking." this is in the "times of london" newspaper owned by rupert murdoch's news corp. it could be depicting the irony of the attention paid on the phone-hacking scandal which millions of people are starving in somalia and horn of africa. 4 million people are starving yet the headlines have been on rupert murdoch and his family over the phone-hacking scandal. again, there has been so much criticism and reaction to this cartoon which had the title priorities on it. some of the tweets that have been coming in. emma keller who is married to "the new york times" executive editor brian keller tweed anyone else wondering if this
. >>> another rupert murdoch newspaper is stirring controversy. outrage really over an editorial cartoon that is being called shameless and offensive. we are following the story from london. monita? >> shameless, offensive, disgusting are some of the words being used to describe this cartoon which we are going to show you. it's basically depicting starving people in somalia with the caption, "we have had a belly full of phone hacking." this is in the "times of...
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it's just past the half hour, rupert murdoch's news corp. has its hands full, multiple investigations in great britain for allegedly bribery and phone hacking. the u.s. justice department and the fbi are examining whether the company broke laws in the united states. michael isikoff has been looking in to this. what do you know? what's the status of these probes? >> well, you know, the heat is turning up a bit. there's a report this morning that the -- the federal prosecutors are preparing subpoenas to news corp. on the phone hacking allegations. we also reported last night that the feds are interested in a prior act of computer hacking alleged against a major news corp. subsidiary, news america marketing, which was accused in a court case of hacking on repeated occasions into the computers of one of its compoters thcompote e competitors that led to an out-of-court settlement. there's a report today that news corp. has hired the former top prosecutor at the justice department in charge of foreign corrupt practices act. that's because one of t
it's just past the half hour, rupert murdoch's news corp. has its hands full, multiple investigations in great britain for allegedly bribery and phone hacking. the u.s. justice department and the fbi are examining whether the company broke laws in the united states. michael isikoff has been looking in to this. what do you know? what's the status of these probes? >> well, you know, the heat is turning up a bit. there's a report this morning that the -- the federal prosecutors are preparing...
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some of the executives blamed, are saying, hey, we told james murdoch, james murdoch didn't understand why they paid people off, he was new at the job, he agreed to go along with it. the legal manager and the former editor of the "news of the world," two very senior executives at news international have issued aut!ñ statement say that's not true, we actually briefed him in detail on, he knew exactly what was happening. it's not clear if that's the sort of start or trend and people are concerned and say the murdochs got it all wrong and they were lying basically to parliament, then they're in big trouble. >> with all you know and your experience, you working in the community, do the murdoch statements align with what you've heard about rupert murdoch as far as being a hands-on owner? >> well, when i worked for the british papers, murdoch was very hands on. to be fair to him, his story about him taking a less in an interest in recent years, it's true, i think. he did put his son in charge over there, and i think he spends a lot less time day to day with the newspapers than he used to do
some of the executives blamed, are saying, hey, we told james murdoch, james murdoch didn't understand why they paid people off, he was new at the job, he agreed to go along with it. the legal manager and the former editor of the "news of the world," two very senior executives at news international have issued aut!ñ statement say that's not true, we actually briefed him in detail on, he knew exactly what was happening. it's not clear if that's the sort of start or trend and people...